Are You an Amateur or a Professional?
A few days ago I wrote a post about The Vital Importance of Professionalism in the acting world. About a day after writing that, I read Liz Strauss’s Are You a Freelancer or a Solo Entrepreneur? I started thinking about the difference between the Amateur actor and the Professional actor. This short list is the […]
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You Want to Get Paid For Doing What?
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
The biggest distinction in the acting world made between one artist and another is that of the paid actor and the non-paid actor. The difference, for some strange reason, is all […]
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Your Way to a Better Brain
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you’re an actor or not, everyone could use a few tips for keeping the old steel trap sharp, right? We all want to find ways to keep our brains working at their best. Actors particularly have to keep themselves creative and […]
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The Art of the Curtain Call
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983)
It’s a good rule of thumb, for the actor, director and playwright that one should always keep the last half of a show shorter than the first half. People have short attention spans, especially after an […]
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Change Your Life Through Laban Movements
“Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.”
Shakespeare Act II, Scene II “Hamlet”
We’ve talked a lot in the past about how your physical body can inform your mind. It’s a fact that changes in your use of the […]
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Teach Yourself to Cry On Cue
Boy, oh boy, watching these statistics jump is fun. It turns out my most popular articles so far are those about monologues. Actors from all around the country are trying to find out How to Choose a Monologue, or what is the Secret to Monologue Performance. I hope you found what you were looking for. […]
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